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s s rajamouli portrait — Image: Dani Charles Silverscreen Media Inc. (https://silverscreen.in) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Craft · 18 Sept 2026

How do you direct a hero who is not on set? Rajamouli’s Eega problem

Eega’s premise was simple: a murdered man returns as a fly. Making the fly behave like a lead actor forced Rajamouli and his crew to rebuild how they shot, edited and reacted to a protagonist that did not physically exist.

sekhar kammula portrait — Image: Batthini Vinay Kumar Goud · CC BY-SA 4.0

Craft · 18 Sept 2026

Fidaa travelled because Sekhar Kammula refused to sand Telangana out of the romance

Bhanumathi’s home, dialect and refusal to migrate are not local colour around Fidaa’s love story. They are the reason the love story has a conflict at all.

ram charan portrait — Image: Bollywood Hungama · CC BY 3.0

Craft · 18 Sept 2026

Rangasthalam’s realism was engineered: how Sukumar rebuilt Ram Charan, sound and the village together

A partially deaf hero, a reconstructed 1980s village, Godavari voices and a camera designed to stay inside the action all served the same plan: make a giant star look like he belonged to one specific place.

tharun bhascker portrait — Image: Batthini Vinay Kumar Goud · CC BY-SA 4.0

Craft · 18 Sept 2026

They kept calling Pelli Choopulu a ‘small film.’ Then it rewrote Tharun Bhascker’s life

Tharun Bhascker said the industry’s treatment of his sub-₹1 crore debut nearly destroyed his confidence. The film ran 50 days, travelled in the US and turned the insult ‘small film’ into a commercial argument.

Cover artwork for Dr Praveen Yajjala's book Screenplay Master: Sukumar — Image: Telugu Film Producers Council

Craft · 12 Sept 2026

New book dissects the architecture behind Sukumar's screenplays

Dr Praveen Yajjala's Screenplay Master - Sukumar studies the director's character psychology, structure and rooted storytelling.